RE: Design checklist?

From: <Christopher>
Date: Tue Jun 12 2001 - 10:21:00 EDT

>i may add that the very 1st step in the design is establishing the design
>conditions for the pressure/temperature together with the different loading
>conditions (siesmic, wind, etc.). this is the easy part
Actually that's the second or third step. The first step is finding out what the customer expects you to provide. For example--if the customer has done the process design, he may have already figured out the temperatures and pressures in the system.

The next step is the architecture--where does a run of pipe start, where does it end and where the hardware in between is supposed to go. Unless of course your customer has provided that information, too.

Every engineering job starts by figuring out what you're going to be providing to your customer. That's the only way to know when the job is finished.

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<a href="http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw">http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw</a> Received on Tue Jun 12 10:21:00 2001